Calvinist
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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David Hume, Adam Ferguson, William Robertson, Smith and their contemporaries weren’t riding a wave of orthodoxy but quietly turning a Calvinist culture into a laboratory for skepticism, commerce and civil society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
As an undergrad at the University of Texas, he swore off weekly Longhorns games and eschewed his beloved Dallas Cowboys to concentrate on writing, a practice he has maintained with Calvinist devotion ever since.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
“Wagner was clear on what had influenced him in terms of dominion theology,” Gagné said, and specifically referenced Calvinist philosopher and theologian R.J.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2024
The book depicts a sort of spiritual adolescence, a trying-on of identities: Catholic, Calvinist, Pentecostal, Adventist.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2022
Maria had grown up Calvinist, a form of Protestant Christianity with a deep distrust of frivolity and vanity.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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